Summary:
Union General Darius Couch reports to General in Chief Henry Halleck in July, 1863, on the state of the Cumberland valley road in the aftermath of the Gettysburg campaign. Couch says his men can repair it to Chambersburg, where supplies can then be sent.

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Received 10 p. m.
Maj.-Gen. Halleck, Gen.-in-Chief:

Harrisburg, Pa.,

July 7, 1863

The Cumberland Valley road will be in order to-morrow as far as Scotland, 28 miles from Hagerstown. It is so badly destroyed between these two points that it will take a week to transport iron and ties to rebuild it. The company may not have it for the present, and I have not deemed it advisable to order it to be rebuilt. Likely the company will put it in order to Chambersburg, where supplies can be thrown in case the Army of the Potomac requires them. Do you think more should be done by Government? Please reply in cipher.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-Gen.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 27, Serial No. 45, Pages 594, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.